The recent Olympic champion, the athlete, is filing a complaint against the two stars.
Throughout her competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics, boxer Imane Khelif made headlines for a totally non-sporting reason. Her presence in the women’s competition had caused controversy because she had been “banned from world boxing championships” at the World Championships in New Delhi, India, in March 2023, just before his gold medal bout after failing to pass the International Association of Bodybuilding (IBA) tests due to “high testosterone levels.”
After the controversies and cyberbullying she was the victim of, the Algerian continued her Olympic Games, despite the withdrawal, for example, of an Italian woman, refusing to be beaten by a man according to her words. She was finally crowned Olympic champion on the ring of Roland-Garros in Paris last Friday, August 9.
Now, she is tackling the legal field and is taking legal action against unknown persons for “acts of aggravated cyberbullying”. Among the people targeted, we will note the name of Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, X and Space X, and JK Rowling, the best-selling author of Harry Potter, or the former YouTube star and now wrestler Logan Paul.
Elon Musk, named in the lawsuit, had shared a post by American swimmer Riley Gaines stating that “men have no place in women’s sports.” The billionaire and owner of the social network X had added: “Absolutely.” JK Rowling had gone even further in her statements with a message published on her social networks.
She explains in the latter: “Someone with a disorder of sexual development cannot change the way they were born, but they can choose not to cheat, they can choose not to take medals from women, they can choose not to cause injury.”
This Wednesday, August 14, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced via AFP that an investigation had been opened by the National Center for Combating Online Hate for “cyberharassment based on gender, public insult based on gender, public provocation to discrimination and public insult based on origin.”